{"id":4199,"date":"2017-06-13T10:49:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T01:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mat-nagoya.jp\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T06:23:20","slug":"mat-exhibition-vol-3-%e4%b8%b9%e7%be%bd%e8%89%af%e5%be%b3%e3%80%8c%e5%90%8d%e5%89%8d%e3%81%ab%e5%8f%8d%e5%af%be%e3%80%8d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mat-nagoya.jp\/en\/archive_exhibition\/4199.html","title":{"rendered":"Yoshinori Niwa \u201cAgainst Name\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MAT, Nagoya is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition of artist Yoshinori Niwa, in which he shows a new installation of the project he realized in Philippines in 2014 as the 3rd special exhibition. The project \u201cSelling the Right to Name a Pile of Garbage\u201d (2014-15) follows Niwa as he planned to sell off the naming rights of a mountain of garbage in several dumping sites in Metro Manila. All garbage in the Philippines goes directly to the dumping site, because of a haphazard law which bans garbage incineration over the country. Through this act of, Niwa compares the final resting place of garbage, a naturally occurring product of human activity, with the alchemistic and capitalistic \u2018Naming Rights\u2019 business for his project. Niwa\u2019s choice to counteract the idea of the owner\u2019s property rights with the proposition that garbage has a monetary value forces us to rethink the issues of ownership and naming which seems to be a specifically human action. In this exhibition, a new installation of this project and several types of related texts explore the issues surrounding the social function or the particularity of \u201cNaming\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Yoshinori Niwa<\/strong><\/p>\n

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MAT, Nagoya had a solo exhibition of Yoshinori Niwa \u201cAgainst Name\u201d.
\nEver-growing landfills have been a serious social issue in the Philippines, due to the unmethodical law to prohibit the incineration of trash. Selling the Right to Name a Pile of Garbage(2014-15) is a project Niwa worked on in the Philippines trying to sell a naming right for a rubbish heap in a landfill of a suburban Metro Manila. In this project, \u201cmonetary value\u201d derived from intangible business and \u201cconcession\u201d derived from owing land collide over the idea of combining landfill as a final destination of all garbage human produce, and naming rights business that are financially alchemic in capitalism. The collision also makes us reconsider the idea of \u201cowning and naming\u201d, which is believed a peculiar right for human being.
\nThe installation show consists of the film work based on the project along with diverse texts associated with naming, provided viewers opportunity to reconsider functions and specificities of names.<\/p>\n

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